The Data： Just How Bad is School？ (Sending a Kid to Public School Has Become a Death Sentence)
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What if we are trading our children's childhoods so that they can be played with in some weird marxist social experiment that has been executed by a bunch of would you like to know more types of social experiments?
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oh no oh my gosh almost one in three young women not over the course of their adolescence
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just in the last year had thought about unaliving themselves oh dear that is how bad the school
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system is right now with young women 24 percent young women made a plan to kill themselves
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this last year this last year again not over the course of their life this is critically bad at
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this point this is we are in the drain cycle right now young women 13 young men 7 whoa one in 10 are
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attempting to kill themselves every year whoa what if we are trading our children's childhoods
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so that they can be played with in some sort of a weird marxist social experiment that has been
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executed by a bunch of would you like to know more hello simone you and i have done episodes on how
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bad the public school uh nightmare is right now i think a lot of people think it's just like a steady
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degree difference from when we were kids uh is not we are going to be going into a lot of data a lot
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statistics in this episode i know our fans love that when i was doing the research for this i was
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like oh my god if i could make enough money to support myself off of our content and i could just
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like really do research heavy episodes all the time i would be so happy like it is such a pleasure to get
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to dive into statistics and see what is being hidden from the general public at this point so what i'm
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going to start with is just like how bad things are because not even in terms of outcomes but a lot
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of people they look at how we're raising our kids and they're like the things you're doing with your
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kids are going to make them unhappy why don't you just do what everyone else does or taking them out of
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public school oh my god they'll all these like horrible fear tactics and it really has become fear
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tactics an article ran in scientific america recently that showed that 37 percent of homeschoolers
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it was like homeschooling is tied to abuse 37 percent of homeschoolers uh abused their kids and
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we know this because cps was called on 37 percent of families they didn't think to check the base rate
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it turns out that actually out of all families 37 percent have had cps called on them so i think that
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actually means that homeschoolers have generally lower rates of actual abuse because think about it
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this way homeschooling families have larger numbers of children so if one child causes some
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kind of warning that has cps called they're much more likely to they're like every child will be seen
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as being like plausibly subject to abuse also i've just noticed that larger families are more likely to
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have people be very judgmental of the way that they raise their kids so i feel like they're way more
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subject to scrutiny and i think a lot of people just think that having more than two kids is abusive
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just like the parents attention would be divided that much is yeah without doing anything else even
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if they did everything absolutely right they were still terrible parents so i would say it's impressive
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that it's not a higher rate no no i what i think when you're talking about this 37 percent number i think
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it shows just how oppressive the urban monoculture is in trying to take people's kids and that it's
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becoming more and more so over time yeah 30 yeah but just on its own that number is sobering 37
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holy smokes but like in terms of the kids aren't all right so i'm going to read to you some statistics
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by the cdc so actually i'll play a little game i'll have you try to guess what the numbers are before
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we get to them because and i'll even prime you by saying that i think the numbers are going to shock you
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on a survey of experiencing and the survey ends in 2021 experience persistent feelings of sadness
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or hopelessness during the past year in the united states and we're looking at young men and women
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what what would you expect are they above or below the age of adolescence this is adolescence adolescence
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45 percent the fact just actually is about the average so with women it's 57 percent these days
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and 29 percent with men so like they are generally unhappy with their lives more than half of young
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women and you can look at all the quote-unquote progress that feminism has made for them and yet
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this number just keeps rising all right but here is i think what's really going to shock you and keep
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in mind we're separating young men and women when you're making guesses okay seriously considered
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attempting suicide during the past year not in their life during the past year young men 14 young
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women 18 you got young men exactly right 14 young women it's 30 oh no oh my gosh almost one in three
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young women not over the course of their adolescence just in the last year has thought about unaliving
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themselves oh dear that is how bad the school system is right now you are sending your kids
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to a meat grinder but let's get worse made a and i'll use a different word so we don't get banned
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here unaliving themselves plan during the past year oh made a plan okay um it's got to be fairly low
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with guys because i feel like they're more likely to follow through and they were at higher rates
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followed through successfully on these four percent of young men and because women are more likely to
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make plans and fantasize i'm going to say 12 percent with young men it was 12 percent with young women
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24 percent oh my man plan young women i plan to kill themselves this last year this last year again
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not over the course of their life this is critically bad at this point this is we are in
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the drain cycle right now the drain cycle now i actually went through as a plan sorry attempted
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unaliving themselves in the last year young women 13 young men seven percent whoa one in 10 are
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attempting to kill themselves every year whoa and i'll also put on screen here we're injured in a
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unaliving attempt in the past year by demographic breakdowns oh yeah what percentage there i'm very
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curious because i feel like a lot of it's also i want i wish we could parse out better performative
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and you know what i mean though there there is a social contagion element there's a glamour element
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to this i feel unfortunately it's really clear in the data to me the closer a group is to the urban
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monoculture the higher the rate is yeah how much was i feel like injuries assigned that someone
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actually meant to do it okay so injured in an attempt for young women it was four percent for
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young men it was two percent total average is three percent but it gets really high in some groups and
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it's determinate on how close you are to the urban monoculture so if you look at groups that are very
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low probability of doing this you're looking at groups like the asian community or the american indian
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or alaska native communities when their group is actually less than one percent if you look at
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groups that do it very high did you have sexual contact with somebody of the same sex 14 14 of people
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who are sexually active and gay and i think that this shows how mentally destructive the groups that
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have invaded these communities are right and it is to me horrifying what we're seeing here and it really
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pairs was our idea that and i don't know if the episode on this is going to go live before or after
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this that in some way a trans identity can be thought of as an alternative to unaliving oneself
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because it's like it a chance to start over with a new identity um yeah that also might explain the rise
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of that given that 14 every year are injured from one of these attempts every year are injured by one of
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these attempts the urban monoculture is maelstrom that rips apart your soul it is bad to an extent
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that i feel that we often underplay in in in this podcast or maybe don't properly elevate if you want
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to talk about like more stuff here nearly 60 percent of female students and nearly 70 percent of lgbtq
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students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness and if you look at 70 percent of
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the lgbtq community in school today and if you as a cultural solution to same-sex attractedness i i think
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it is pretty unarguable to to point out that the gay community of today has many more protections than the
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gay community did when we were growing up and yet the levels of sadness the community has had have
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risen dramatically between this period so this isn't because they're a discriminated group because
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there's been going up as the discrimination has been going down yeah um and if if somebody's actually
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discrimination for the community has been growing up why don't we be like okay you just live in an
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alternate dimension but two if you believe that then clearly whatever the community is doing in terms
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of advocacy is not working it's making it worse yeah it's making it worse so you shouldn't be doing
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the same type of advocacy that you guys are doing right now and then they're like i don't want to
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change any of that but i'm like okay then let's walk things back a bit here and say that things are
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getting better for the community and yet the community's mental state is getting worse so what
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is changing it's the dominance of these new mental frameworks entering the community specifically
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trauma psychology and we're going to go into another study in a different one here that went into
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how uh modern psychological practices when given to uh completely mentally healthy students actually
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decreased outcomes for those students and broke those students relationships with their parents
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because it is literally developed into cult-like tactics but if you're talking about attempted
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suicide 10 of female students 20 of lgbt students if you're talking about now let's just go over some
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other statistics here experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness and this was a rising
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trend so it's almost likely much worse now in 2021 it was 42 experienced poor mental health 29
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seriously considered attempting unaliving oneself 22 uh made an unaliving plan 18 attempted unaliving 10
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and yeah it's just and they do note in the statistics that there were differences among ethnic groups but
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the differences really weren't that big among ethnic groups i was just being ultra low in the
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asian community it's just that the the one in 10 attempted number like absolutely gets me the one in
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five 22 percent seriously considered it absolutely gets me and it's saying a lot if modern world culture
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has a larger unaliving thinking about rate than japan and south korea are famous for this being a problem
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among people and yet now in american american yeah but that asian immigrant cultures here are lower
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just in general i don't know i think it shows that the strict like the ideal parenting style which
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really fits was what we said historically i think the raven the rates are so high in countries like
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korea and japan is because you have a very strict institutional structure and moderately strict parents
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whereas in the united states you have strict parents but loose institutions and as we always say
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cultures work much better when you allow the culture to enforce the restricted rules rather than trying
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to enforce it through a governmental system and that's what we're seeing here i think in these
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very low rates among asians in the united states and keep in mind the government should realize that this
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is a problem so the u.s surge in general has identified mental health challenges as the
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leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people and i'll put up the warning here
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and yeah it's just the the state that they're in is absolutely horrifying now and i think that's
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something we need to remember with school right a lot of people are like well i'm sending my kids to school
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because that's the default and no schools have a cost we trade our children's childhoods
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in exchange for the promise that they will be given the ability to participate in the modern economy
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but what if schools aren't doing that what if we're trading their childhood to put them with a
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group that is not intentionally i think but basically systematically abusing children putting
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them in these states because what else can you say about a group that's having these sorts of numbers
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i can't say anything other than they are in an institutional abuse factory and if anyone
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looked at this in isolation if if this were some form of plastic or food or pollution to which
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people's children were being exposed they would be in a huge uproar there would be legislation to
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immediately ban this material or pollutant right if if this were anything but essentially modern culture
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and education and educational systems which obviously are much harder to address or change or deal with
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people would be up in arms and of course many people already are up in arms i i think that we need a
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completely new school model and people are like what about negative and we're working on that so
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people are like why hasn't the collins institute gone live yet it's actually fully functional at this
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point we're ready to begin on this is our alternate to the school system begin onboarding people but we
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want it really polished when the first group comes in and so right now we're doing things like changing the skill
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level tied to various questions that a student engages with adding a tutoring system various
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things like this but the core product is really impressive and i quite like using it myself even
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it's largely my fault i keep saying well it needs to be a little bit better so that yeah it's my fault
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and it's also the fault that we actually have a day job and we're not paying ourselves to do any of
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this because that's not how we work yeah but i think increasingly what we're going to see
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is one you've got to remember the hold that teachers unions have on democratic politics
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they basically cannot go against the teachers unions they cannot admit that this is a real problem
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but if you look at spending because people are like you're not spending enough and i'll put on
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screen a chart here that shows the amount that we're giving to schools is increasing but all of
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the additional money is going to overhead staff not like the actual teachers and that's what happens
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bureaucratic capture and bureaucratic bloat we need to wipe out that entire class and you can't do that
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because that's the class that is most bought into the teachers unions which basically have the entire
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democratic party in their pocket and then you have the second problem which is the core way that the
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urban monoculture makes new members of the urban monoculture is through control over children's
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media and the school system and so as more and more parents wake up and we're about to get into
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statistics about this about how bad the school system is they have to be more aggressive about
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forcing parents to send kids to a system that's clearly not in their best interest
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and you get extreme cases in germany where things like homeschooling are banned but you are beginning
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to see in the more progressive states more and more restrictions put on homeschooling and even
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in some areas like manhattan like the most urban monoculture places talk of banning private schools
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and institutions like that which is truly insane for me it's like what if we are trading our children's
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childhoods so that they can be played with in some sort of a weird marxist social experiment that has been
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executed by a bunch of executives and i think that's why progressives are so anti-organizations
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like libs of tiktok because a lot of what libs of tiktok is showing is teachers and so we are
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seeing that yeah the worst of the urban monoculture really has infected the school system and that's
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what's causing this hey y'all this is your daily reminder that dr seuss is racist and you shouldn't
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use him in your classroom i get that some of these books are considered classics i mean i grew up on them
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myself i also get that he was a product of his time but also mind you this is 2021 there are
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literally so many other books are more inclusive to all students that you can use instead i've heard
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a lot of people say that gender is complex and sex is simple as a biology teacher i highly disagree
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gender is really easy gender is how someone identifies so just listen to them when they
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tell you if they're male female or non-binary this has been my first year in preschool with
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a class of my own teaching alongside another queer neurodivergent educator and we have been
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rocking r2's class we've been talking about gender and skin color and consent and empathy and our bodies
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and autonomy it's been fabulous but our teaching team is shifting and a new person is being onboarded
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someone with many years of experience so today at the lunch table when the topic of gender and
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genitals came up one of our students plainly looked up and said well i'm a girl today but i know that
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teacher ko isn't no they're envy and the look on the incoming teacher's face was priceless she was shocked
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in a good way and she just looked around at the two of us and said this class is incredible and
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crt is not being taught below law school those of you that are against it are being misled by the
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media about what crt and where and when it is taught my governor has put into place some
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ridiculous legislation that many governors across the country put into place such as i can't teach
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critical race theory so teachers in the past we've been activists after this show of last year
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we really need to stand up and do what's right for our kids right now so this is a call to action teachers
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we got to stand up and fight for our kids because this is bull do your students call you by your
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first name or mr or miss great question this is actually a classic question here's your answer
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currently my students just call me desmond or desi first name however i have been at schools that go
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by last name those schools i go by teacher fambrini i am gender fluid so i don't go by mr or miss i go
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by teacher because i am a teacher so desmond desi or teacher fambrini i'm starting to get a little
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emotional looking at the new masks i got for a couple reasons i've had american flags put up in
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every classroom we're gonna have to say the pledge of allegiance and i'm not gonna be able to talk
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about basically any of the things that i have on these masks hey y'all let me introduce you to our
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non-binary alpaca the kids voted on a gender-neutral name alex for them alex was there to help me
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during the really quiet moments when nobody would talk during virtual learning yes they were so quiet
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but then i also took it as an opportunity to teach my students about how to respect people's pronouns
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did alex ever get misgendered yes but then it opened up some teachable moments about what to do when that
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would happen for example hey mr voong did he just wake up from his nap oh do you mean did they wake up
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from their nap yeah they just did i would apologize quickly make the correction and move on i started
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off modeling how to correct somebody and then afterwards my students would correct each other
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whenever somebody would misgender alex here representation in the classroom matters my kids
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were fifth graders and they still got a kick out of alex oh yes and here's alex's friend lincoln
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the llama who goes by pronouns he him at first my students thought that he had very feminine features
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so they thought that he was a girl and this is why we should never assume somebody's gender just
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based on what they look like all right lincoln say something hello my students were really surprised
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how low his voice sounded don't assume clear from the data that the closer a kid is to this type of
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language and to these types of ideas the more likely they are to unalive themselves these people
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are killing kids at astronomical numbers this needs to be stopped we need to understand that what
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these people are pushing is bigotry and it is not helping the same-sex attracted community it is not even
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helping people who are actually transgender this is some sort of weird bizarre sex pest marxist cult
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that is taking over our school system and it is disproportionately hurting the kids who are
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actually same-sex attracted for example as we can see in the data this stuff needs to be fought tooth and
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nail i love it they're like no no no no no actually you see when um we teach kids to hate their identities
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and their countries and their uh history um it saves their lives affirming affirming language affirming practices
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save lives and it's like okay well then why why is it that the people who buy into this the most
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are the ones unaliving themselves at astronomical rates why is it that as this language penetrates
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our school system more this problem gets worse you should see an inverse correlation if you were right
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about this are you open are you even open to the possibility that your group is wrong and i don't think
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you are because it's a religion for you this is moved past the point of data and you don't care
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how many children you have to sacrifice so that you can feel like you were the good guy
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it's sickening so what are people doing in response so now i'm going to put a graph on screen
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actually did you have any more thoughts on before we go further
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an argument that i hear from people because i was just listening to someone's
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youtube essay on alt-right parents and how they're against the schooling system a very common argument
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that is presented is oh people are just presenting really extreme cases and this is not how it works
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for everything but there is just such a preponderance of cases of people doing egregious things there's
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actual there are actual rules in some cases there's actual legislation that is pretty egregious if you just
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look at it at what it is and then these stats i don't think can really be denied coming from the
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cdc this is not like this is not right wing conspiracy yeah some some right wing mommy blog
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that did a twitter poll this is much more rigorous than that and people will be like oh these are the
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effects of covid but if you look at the statistics they've been going up at a steady rate for a long
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period of time before this so no it's not just covid it was going up for a long period of time now
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let's talk about homeschooling the alternative so i'm going to put a graph on screen here right now
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and what you're going to see in this graph is from the washington post is a lot of people thought that
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during covid a lot of people just took out their kids and then it was fine after that but that's
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actually not what happened uh a bunch of people took off their kids this graph is titled homeschooling
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rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education basically what in this graph is it shoots up
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during the pandemic but then it barely goes down after the pandemic and it's the same as private
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school shoots up isn't going down after the pandemic whereas the number of kids in school is actually
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continuing to drop after the pandemic which is just shocking to me um but uh this is and and we have
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simone's sister is like an assistant superintendent at a school district and she was talking about one
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really scary thing is how quickly the their class sizes are dropping so they're now dealing with the
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problem of demographic collapse combined with everybody taking their kids out and she's a year
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over year it's 60 kids less this is not like a giant school she was just like in this one school system
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she's like there are whole classes that aren't happening anymore i think what was it she said
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it was like the size of two classrooms that no that i said that that's okay you said it's the size
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of two classrooms disappearing but that's shocking that we're seeing this but hold on i'm going to
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continue to go through here i'm going to quote something here what surprises me is how much the
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additional homeschooling has stuck so far i would have expected the huge peak in 2020 2022 to roughly
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this level with the pandemic making schools a different level of dystopian nightmare than usual
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than most people throwing in the towel that was what we did instead it looks like 80 of the increase
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stuck around from 2022 to 2023 it seems this was a case there being a lot of startup costs and network
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effects once you learn how to homeschool and you try it most people decided to keep going and the
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change was sustainable and i think that's really important this graph is titled homeschooling's rise
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from fringe to fastest growing form of education basically what in this graph is it shoots up during
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the pandemic but then it barely goes down after the pandemic and it's the same as private school
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shoots up isn't going down after the pandemic whereas the number of kids in homeschool is actually
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continuing to drop after the pandemic which is just shocking to me so let's continue to go on with
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other things that are happening the nihilism explosion okay so here we're looking at pessimism
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among us 12th graders specifically at questions hard to have hope for the world and wonders if there is a
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purpose to life given the world situation and within gen z it's just really high 34 wondering if there is
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purpose to life given the world situation and then around 40 for hard to have hope for the world
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and i think that this is because the structures of information that they are gaining access to have
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one been co-opted by these apocalyptic ai cults even though ai is opening up all of these great
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opportunities it's changing what it means to be human it's making it fundamentally possible to maybe
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live in an economic system where we can all pursue our dreams whenever we want like genuinely a post
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scarcity environment and yet they're here freaking out because apocalypticism grabs you when you're
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already nihilistic people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams so that nothing grows stronger
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it's the emptiness that's left it is like a despair destroying this world and i have been trying to help it
00:26:41.520
but why because people who have no hopes are easy to control because i think that another thing that the urban
00:26:53.760
monoculture has realized is that one of the best ways to grab people if you're in like a detention center and they
00:26:59.840
need to brainwash you you're going to any of these if you read stories about brainwashing one way to do it is to
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completely demoralize an individual and i think that the urban monoculture has learned this when it works
00:27:11.360
to demoralize young people when it works to ensure that they have no pride in their ethnic or national
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or religious identity it can break them down and when they can teach them the future has no hope and then
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it can siphon them out into this completely parasitic and toxic culture and get them to spend all of their
00:27:29.440
time like partying and being indulgent i remember when i said like this whole miri thing is just a
00:27:34.960
larp at this point like it's not serious and then we learned recently that even eliezer yukowski
00:27:41.120
he we never posted our ea episode because i thought it was too hard on eliezer and i was like i don't
00:27:45.120
want to be like that negative in one of our episodes we might post it if people really asked for it or post
00:27:49.440
it somewhere private but he ended up basically shutting down most of what miri was doing shutting
00:27:55.920
down their research department and then just effing off with his girlfriend basically and so did the
00:28:02.160
the other founder and to party right take the money go out and party and they used a little bit to
00:28:06.960
continue with the outreach which i think was probably the right thing to do because they weren't achieving
00:28:11.600
that much with the research but that was like the only real work they were doing and i think it shows
00:28:15.760
that once you reach this level of nihilism and i guess i call it fear rot even the individuals who
00:28:21.680
are purveying these messages even the preachers of it can't do anything but descend into lives of total
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hedonism do you have any thoughts here before i go further i feel like the consequences of all
00:28:32.960
these things speak for themselves i mean you look at like our projects like our tracked project and
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trying to help with our school system people stay within their religious systems
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and people are like what's really like the core end goal of all this the core end goal of
00:28:48.160
pernatalism more broadly and it's vitalism it's being human flourishing yeah human flourishing
00:28:54.080
genuine in this system in this modern school system and in our modern culture humans are not
00:28:59.920
flourishing and i think that i don't you can't not even argue that people in progressive cultures
00:29:06.720
would say that people are flourishing they would just point to i don't know capitalism or rich people
00:29:16.560
or systemic bias or something else and say that's why everyone's suffering so much
00:29:21.760
yeah because the calls coming from within the house yeah the calls coming from within the house
00:29:26.480
they're using these scapegoats and you can look at the statistics it's not just my perception that
00:29:30.880
the more progressive someone is the more mental health problems they have the more likely they are
00:29:34.960
to have attempted on aliving themselves the more like it's clear and i'll put some stats on the screen
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here and it appears that when you get to the most extreme iterations of this culture you are
00:29:44.080
completely sacrificing and this is actually something i've seen was our for example like lgbt friends gay
00:29:50.480
friends like we have some gay friends who are like republican and have kids and they are completely
00:29:56.800
mentally healthy they're often rowing they're also like really fit everything like that then when i
00:30:01.280
think about like my progressive bt friends they're typically in like terrible health they don't have
00:30:07.040
long-term relationships they're seeing a psychologist every single week they are just barely holding it
00:30:12.720
together on a cocktail of drugs like it doesn't work and it's hurting those communities the most but let's
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continue here because actually we've had some of our younger users here who are like i'm in school
00:30:23.600
right now and what i see is the lgbt community being treated like a priest cast almost and like
00:30:29.200
they can get caught selling drugs and they don't have to deal with the consequences because they're
00:30:32.560
for example gay right like they they are treated as a different caste system within the school today
00:30:38.640
and i'm like even if that's the case they are still dealing with more mental hardship in so far
00:30:43.920
it's a buy-in to the urban monoculture and then the ones who stand against the urban monoculture the gay
00:30:48.560
young people who stand against the urban monoculture they have their identity stripped
00:30:52.240
from them people say you're not really gay and they get bullied by the urban monoculture relentlessly
00:30:58.480
as you can see from any of these conservative gay influencers online who just get harassed more than
00:31:03.520
anyone else but it gets worse now we're going to talk about like where urban monoculture ideas
00:31:08.480
are just destroying a generation at this point right because in a lot of these statistics you're like oh
00:31:13.200
i guess guys are getting off easy and in a way they are because girls are getting coddled and not
00:31:17.520
having to deal with discipline and that leads to i think a lot of these downside negative effects
00:31:21.440
but i'm going to read a reddit post here by a teacher in the our teacher subreddit they got a
00:31:26.160
ton of upvotes so this is something that other teachers feel is a problem hmm is anyone else here
00:31:31.600
seeing the girls crushing the boys right now in literally everything we just had our first student
00:31:37.280
council meeting in order to become a part you had to submit a one to two paragraph explanation for
00:31:41.840
why you wanted to join the council handles tech club garden club art club etc the kids are 11 to
00:31:48.160
12 years old there were 46 girls and five boys among the five boys two were very much quote unquote
00:31:55.120
besties with a group of girls so in a stereotypical description since there was three non-girl connected
00:32:02.400
boys my heart broke to see it a bit the boy representation has been falling year over year and we are
00:32:08.320
talking by grade five and keep in mind if you're like i'll just start with my kids in school and
00:32:13.840
this is something we need to be aware of simone this is happening by grade five destroyed your young
00:32:18.880
boys am i just and then your young girls are going to end up on aliving themselves by the statistics so
00:32:23.840
just to be aware am i just a coincidence case in this data point is anyone else seeing the girls
00:32:29.600
absolutely demolish the boys right now is this a problem we need to be addressing this also shouldn't
00:32:34.160
be a debate about people over 18 i'm literally talking about children who grew up in modern title
00:32:39.440
nine society was working and educated mothers the boys are straight up peter panning right now it's
00:32:45.360
like they are becoming lost and just so people know this is around 8 000 upvotes in the teachers subreddit
00:32:51.520
and a 4.7 000 comments so this is absolutely something we're seeing and this is something that other
00:32:58.560
people are uh recognizing and the answer to me is that all of these like progressive intersectionality
00:33:07.680
is what's leading to this uh very obviously but i think what's also telling here and i want to
00:33:13.440
emphasize a point that you made a little bit earlier which is that just because you're advantaged
00:33:18.640
in the school system and you may be doing better within it for a period of time doesn't mean that you
00:33:24.720
are ultimately experiencing better real world outcomes keep in mind when it came to those
00:33:28.400
mental health stats that you rattled off girls were performing worse they had higher rates of ideation
00:33:35.520
that was deadly higher rates of mental health problems so really winning within this system
00:33:41.760
means you're losing at life and honestly if this system makes life hard for you all the better that
00:33:46.480
you're actually facing some genuine challenges and and building some resilience being forced to do that
00:33:51.600
because being robbed of that experience is causing a lot of this lack of this mental health being in
00:33:58.800
this system the more coddled a group is by the urban monoculture the higher their demographic status
00:34:04.640
is within the urban monoculture yeah the lower their mental health outcomes are yeah so this coddling
00:34:10.640
that girls are seeing that is leading to them showing up to these groups in higher numbers leading to them
00:34:14.480
getting into college at higher rates leading to all of these systemic discriminations in their favor
00:34:19.920
is leading to worse mental health outcomes and you even see this among ethnic lines so for example the
00:34:25.840
black community had a higher unaliving themselves rate than the white community in schools right now
00:34:30.720
and it is because these groups not by a huge actually with that group it was like double it wasn't as bad as
00:34:37.120
like girls and guys it was like a four percent to two percent or something for attempted not attempted an
00:34:42.640
injury from an attempt but yeah it's it's it shows that what they are doing isn't working and yet they
00:34:49.360
look at these statistics they look at for example girls facing these larger mental health outcomes
00:34:54.640
and they have the urban monoculture has no solution to this other than we need to i.e. progressivism more broadly
00:35:02.720
we need to increase the special status we're giving these groups we need to increase the ways that they
00:35:09.360
are being coddled in our sort of urban monoculture lens which is leading to progressively worse outcomes
00:35:15.440
and here i'm going to talk about some more progressively worse outcomes that we're seeing here
00:35:19.120
major depression among teens we have seen since 2010 if you're looking at 2020 a 145 increase in girls
00:35:26.880
and in boys here in the increase you actually higher but the absolute number is lower
00:35:30.720
161 in percent increase among boys in anxiety you can see the stats just shooting up among college
00:35:37.680
students so in anxiety it's now in 25 college students 135 increase since 2010 and depression
00:35:45.840
has been a 106 increase since 2010 this isn't working the way our culture has changed since 2010
00:35:53.280
is not working and it's i think it's you have to most people who are adults now and listening to this
00:36:00.160
have to understand how profoundly different the school system must be if these outcomes are so different
00:36:05.360
one how different childhood must be and also we have to remember you and i grew up in a time when
00:36:10.080
at least when we were in middle school or primary school you like could not use the internet to look
00:36:15.600
up answers to questions because then we did have internet access but like literally the answers weren't there
00:36:21.120
you would have to go to a library or refer to an encyclopedia or a dictionary you could not look
00:36:26.960
these things up like life is so profoundly different for these people and i think a lot of people are
00:36:32.480
when trying to model solutions or trying to diagnose the problem not understanding how fundamentally foreign
00:36:39.280
life is to to us as a young person you mean to the young generation not us as young it's their
00:36:46.320
experience is foreign to us yeah foreign to us yeah but we are not young people yeah just clear
00:36:51.200
no yes we're not young we are very old you are absolutely correct about this and here i all of
00:36:56.800
this would be worth it if while all of these negative effects were increasing we were getting
00:37:01.520
increased output from the school system like it was a doing better except the exact opposite is
00:37:08.160
happening only 21 of us high schoolers are well prepared for college 2023 act data revealed
00:37:14.560
a concerning lack of college preparedness among recent high school graduates out of the class
00:37:19.040
of 2023 only 21 met only 21 met the act college readiness benchmarks across all core subjects the
00:37:27.920
signals that one in five students are equipped to succeed in introductory college courses at the
00:37:34.000
other end of the spectrum over 40 of graduates failed to meet a single subject benchmark and students
00:37:40.400
nationwide scored an average of 19.5 out of 36 on the act this year down 0.3 points from 2022
00:37:48.960
for a 32 year low the decline in math and reading scores among us 13 year olds largest drop since in
00:37:56.080
1973 reads and drop it's at a lower rate reading scores also declined by four points between 2020 and 2023
00:38:03.200
with math scores experiencing a more significant decrease of nine points during the same period
00:38:07.680
despite the impact of remote learning the decline in scores has been ongoing since 2012 so again this
00:38:13.200
is all stuff we've been seeing since the 2010s uh in line you can't blame the pandemic a gallup poll
00:38:18.480
conducted in 2022 indicates that 55 of americans expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of k-12
00:38:24.480
education marking the highest level of dissatisfaction since 2000 now as this gets worse something
00:38:30.880
we're seeing because the urban monoculture needs this system to stay operational it cannot allow
00:38:35.680
it to shut down because again it's not having kids and again this is not historic as we've done
00:38:40.320
in our other video can conservatives outbreed the left this there was not a difference in fertility rates
00:38:46.160
between progressives and republicans pre-90s this is a completely modern phenomenon of progressives
00:38:52.640
only existing because they are converting other people's children but they've really doubled down on
00:38:57.120
it conservatives have double their fertility rates now now as this gets worse because it is an
00:39:01.680
existential issue for the survival of the urban monoculture they have to hide it and so here are
00:39:05.920
some attempts to hide it that we've been seeing oregon suspended the requirement for students to
00:39:09.680
demonstrate proficiency in english learning skills to graduate for classes of 2022 2023 and 2024
00:39:16.400
and the decision was made through senate bill 744 which ordered them just don't test them anymore
00:39:22.000
and then in 2015 california suspended the california high school exit examination requirement for
00:39:27.600
graduation governor jerry brown signed a bill sb 172 that eliminated this requirement which had been
00:39:34.800
in place for about a decade the suspension was initially set for 2015 to 2016 however the same
00:39:41.280
bill required school districts to retroactively grant diplomas to students who had failed the exam but
00:39:46.800
met all other graduation requirements this applied to the graduating classes as far back as 2000s
00:39:51.200
i think another thing that should be emphasized is a lot of the teachers even in the public school
00:39:58.560
system where there are a lot of adverse incentives and i'm not saying they're all great but many of
00:40:02.160
them are exceptional wonderful people who really do care about student outcomes they're put in impossible
00:40:07.360
positions especially because of the system one thing that i've seen some teachers commenting on
00:40:12.000
when discussing the various crises facing students now is they are getting kids let's say that they're
00:40:20.000
teaching seventh grade who are at a fourth grade level and they because they've just been passed up
00:40:24.080
they cannot do anything to bring them up to an eighth grade level in that year when they're starting
00:40:31.760
with something so bad so because kids just get passed through each class graduated the problem becomes
00:40:37.280
increasingly intractable for these teachers there's no nothing you can do no matter how good you are
00:40:43.760
as a teacher if you're receiving students who are so ill prepared who've been already so ill
00:40:48.880
treated by this system there's really nothing you can do and they were also talking about
00:40:54.160
i think they called it sem so like social emotional learning or something but basically like exploding
00:41:00.240
which is basically just a cult yeah and that they they as young teachers who were very i would say
00:41:07.120
very progressive the people that i've seen talking about this they hate it because they know it doesn't
00:41:12.000
work and they see the effect that it has on students so i would say this is not even a
00:41:16.080
progressive teachers are insane issue this is like you say some mimetic cults have also taken over
00:41:23.760
even like subsets bureaucracy the school system right now is an incredible bureaucracy just a giant
00:41:29.200
bureaucracy yeah and this cult uh of of the the ultra left um which is like a sub-faction of the urban
00:41:35.760
monoculture it's like it's a vanguard um it has embedded itself most deeply and it works really well
00:41:43.040
within bureaucracy so even if 90 of teachers don't want to go along with this if you push back you
00:41:48.960
lose everything you lose your job you lose your pension you are basically unemployable in other
00:41:53.280
fields have you been doing this for a long time so there is no possibility for pushback by the
00:41:58.720
teachers who want to do what's right for the students and i think the only way to fix this is
00:42:02.960
to completely blow up the education system as it exists right now we we just need to shut down
00:42:08.240
public education and it's sel social emotional learning and they yeah they hate it yeah it's
00:42:13.680
very pervasive that we were doing with leading to one in ten kids trying to unalive themselves
00:42:20.000
every year we'd be like oh my god i don't care what the effects are this must be shut down
00:42:26.080
and i feel that way with school what would i do if i controlled things more broadly i would probably
00:42:31.360
move to a system to try to maintain as much of the existing teaching infrastructure as possible
00:42:35.520
where the schools that exist right now are made public spaces and then parents bid on being able
00:42:43.360
to send their kids to individual teachers yeah those teacher salaries are dependent on their demand
00:42:48.880
among parents yeah and that would allow if you're a far progressive you can send your kid to the ultra
00:42:53.920
progressive teacher if they've been showing themselves to be efficacious and all of the teachers have
00:42:58.160
ranked like how the average type of student that's coming into them and how much they're improving
00:43:03.040
those students and students ability to get the teacher they want depends on their grades you know
00:43:07.600
you there is a reward for good grades and we are not wasting good teachers on low efficacious and
00:43:12.320
students and some people are like once done students just fall behind and it's like we need to be
00:43:16.400
realistic that's already happening right the other study that always gets me is the peter grace study
00:43:20.480
on unschooling which was looking at what if we did literally nothing for kids and it showed that kids
00:43:25.360
who are unschooled like not homeschooled literally nothing we're getting into college at higher
00:43:29.040
rates than kids who are going to public school and graduating college at higher rates and had better
00:43:32.880
emotional health outcomes obviously as well i suppose i should go without saying but obviously
00:43:37.280
and then people are like what about the negative social effects of homeschooling and this has been
00:43:41.440
well studied and they don't exist this is a bad toupee problem that you're dealing with here
00:43:45.600
it is it is just like in the big meta studies that have looked at this you just don't see much
00:43:50.000
negative effects from homeschooling and people are waking up to that now that was always a
00:43:54.080
a con job that people pretend that but of course kids who are raised by adults are going to have much
00:43:58.960
better abilities to deal with the world than kids who are raised in this weird sort of lord
00:44:03.600
of the flies scenario we've contrived and it makes perfect sense when people are like i remember growing
00:44:08.960
up the homeschoolers were weird it's like actually reflect on the ways they were weird i remember
00:44:14.480
thinking that as a kid too but now as an adult when i remember the things that made them weird i was like
00:44:20.400
yeah they were weird because they were really polite and they didn't emotionally manipulate the
00:44:25.680
people around them yeah and they didn't get into histionics over everything i think a lot of it's
00:44:29.760
also that they don't like use the same cultural shibboleths that people use to judge them i just
00:44:35.040
heard ayla get criticized because on a podcast recently she was asked her favorite beetle and
00:44:41.360
she said the green ones with the black spots on them that's um classic homeschool and i think that's
00:44:50.160
oh so weird but no that's an honest and good answer and why do we all need to think exactly
00:44:56.240
like the same cultural references and know the same tv shows and do all this really dumb stuff
00:45:01.920
yeah i completely agree and i think that our system so just to the final pitch for the collins institute
00:45:08.000
feel free to email us emails are you to find at collinsinstitute.com if you are interested in
00:45:12.640
signing up for this program i really hope we can get this out within the next couple months
00:45:16.320
the big task right now is getting the mentoring system completed and then i'm going to film a
00:45:21.280
actually one of our audience members is going to be putting together who has a like a digital
00:45:25.920
explanation animated like how to use it slash ad thing and as soon as that's done we will be
00:45:31.200
releasing it to you and i am very happy with what we've created it is exceeded my personal expectations
00:45:39.120
of what i thought we were going to be able to put together and the thing that has exceeded my
00:45:43.200
expectations is that it's fun i wish i just had infinite time to dive into it honestly i just
00:45:51.200
i want to explore it i want to go through all the nodes and learn all the things but um we do not
00:45:56.880
like it will for my kids it makes me very feel very comfortable allowing them not to go to school i
00:46:01.680
should know what we do with our kids in public schools we give them a choice so we'll send our
00:46:05.280
kids to public school and if they're like i would rather be at home studying they can do that but if
00:46:09.600
they want to go to school they can go to school they still all of their education we're going to
00:46:13.760
assume is it's our responsibility i assume if they go to school it's because they want to experience
00:46:19.440
that but that's not where they're going to learn the stuff that gets them ahead in life
00:46:23.600
yeah where they're going to learn about the world yeah i just think people because it's being hid from
00:46:28.480
people how bad the problem is these days and that we just need to reset the system unplug and
00:46:34.480
re-plug that's the only way was this giant bureaucracy to really fix things have you tried
00:46:38.560
turn it on off and back on again but anyway i love you to death simone you are just this the sun
00:46:46.640
to the stars of my world i i cannot see the stars out there because you shine so bright as a mother
00:46:52.640
and as a wife and i am so lucky to have you in my life i love you so much milcom you're the best
00:47:00.080
thanks for creating the collins institute i can't wait for kids to use it